Compound tool



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R. w. DIEPBNDORF.

COMPOUND TOOL.

N0. 389,553. r Patented Sept. 18,-1888.

WITNESSES awm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSELL WALOOTT- DIEFENDOR-F, OF FORT PLAIN, NEW YORK.

COMPOUND TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,553, datedSeptember 18, 1888.

Application filed May 5, 1888. Serial No. 272,908, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RosELL WALOOTT DIE- FENDORF, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-

siding at Fort Plain, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oompound Tools, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a compound tool or implementfor use specially in and about a household.

The invention consists in a compound tool constructed and arrangedsubstantially as hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is aperspective view; Fig. 2, a cross-section on the line 00 a, Fig. 1,showing more in detail the wrench and wire-cutter; and Fig. 3 is a planview, the wire-cutter being omitted.

In general construction and appearance my device resembles ordinaryshears or scissors. It is composed of the cutting-blades a b, pivoted atc, and having the handles (2 e. The

handle at is .provided with the usual thumb hole or opening andterminates at its outer end in a pointed or flattened projection, f,which may be used as a screw-driver, the same being so hereinaftercalled. The bandle c terminates at its outer end in a bifurcated andcurved projection, g, which may be used as a nail or tack claw. and isso hereinafter designated; and projecting from the handle 6, at rightangles to the nail or tack claw g, is a knob or boss, h, which serves asa hammer. The handle 6 is also provided with an opening, 2', for thefingers in operating the shears, and in this instance the said openingis made tapering or wedge-shaped, so as to receive nuts of differentsizes and thus be capable of use as a wrench, the sides or faces of thesaid opening being made flat or square,

as shown in the drawings, to more readily fitor engage the flattened orsquared sides of the nuts to which the wrench is to be applied. Thehandles d and e are further provided near their outer ends with meetingjaws j k, which serve as nippers or pinchers. The meeting faces of thesejaws j k may be roughened, as is usual in the construction of ordinarypinchers. The handles d and e are also provided near the pivotal pointof the scissorsblades with cutting-bladesl m, to serve as a wire-cutter.

The scissors or shear blades a b not only serve for cutting purposes,but are used as a handle or handles, whereby the other parts or tools ofthe device may be manipulated.

The wirecutter lm may be operated by the handles d and e, as is obvious.As shown in Fig. 3, the wire-cutter may be omitted.

I do not broadly claim a compound tool comprising the combination ofshears, a nutwrench, pinchers, wire-cutter, screw-driver, tack or nailclaw, and hammer, as tools having such combinations are older than myinvention. I therefore limit my invention to shears having the otherparts mentioned disposed in orupon the handles thereof, as herein setforth.

What I claim is a 1. The compound tool comprising scissors or shearblades a and b, pivoted at c, and having the handles (Z and e, thenut-wrench formed by the tapering square-edged opening '1; of the handlee, the hammer h, and then ail or tack claw 9, also formed on handle 0,the screwdriverflformed on or with the handle (I, and the roughened jawsj k on the handles, forming pinchers, all constructed and arrangedsubstantially as shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the compound tool comprisingscissors or shear blades a and b, pivoted at c, and having the handles dand e, the nut-wrench formed by the tapering squareedged opening t ofthe handle 6, the hammer h, and the nail or tack claw 9, also formed onhandle 6, the screwdriver f, formed on or with the handle (I, and theroughened jaws j k on the handles, forming piuchers, and thecutting-blades Z m, arranged on the handles next to the pivot andconstituting a wire-cutter, all constructed ROSELL WALGOT'I. DIEFENDORF.

Witnesses:

FRED F. WENDELL, EDWIN S. VAN DEUsEN.

